Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

I am you, Umasi, and I am weak." the shadow spun around and began walking away. "In the end, either you will conquer me…or I will conquer you.

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked.

I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.